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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Feuerbach

Ein Mensch ohne Verstand ist auch ein Mensch ohne Wille—A man without understanding is also a man without will or purpose.

Fantasy is of royal blood; the senses, of noble descent; and reason, of civic (bürgerlichen) origin.

Im Leben ist der Mensch zehn Jahre in Kriege und zehn in der Irre, gleich dem Ulysses—Man, like Ulysses, spends ten years in war and ten in wandering.

In the perishable petals of the flower there resides more spirit and life than in the lumpish granite boulder that has defied the tear and wear of thousands of years.

The good, the new, comes exactly from that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.

Theology is anthropology.

To know life we must detach ourselves from life.

Um das Leben zu erkennen, muss man sich vom Leben absondern—To know life, a man must separate himself from life.